Improvement in plate-lifters



MARY G. BARBOUR, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PLATE-LIFTERS.

` 'Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 82,343, dated September 19, 1876 application filed June 19, 1876.

To all whom it may concern l Be it known that I, MARY G. BARBOUE, of

4JSOrtIand, Maine, have invented an Improvenient in Plate-Lifters,-of `which the following is a specification:

rlhis invention consists in a plate-lifter formed of thinsheet-iron having arounded` point, a

circular, or nearly circular, bed orblade, surroundedon its rear third by an inclined border of a lune shape, Vwhich is laid hold of `by thehandle. l

Heretofore plate and pan lifters have been made either b v embodying in them a device acting as tongs or pinchers, and laying hold` as `nippers `of the edge of the plate or pan, or as a two-pronged' fork thrust under the sides more or less flaring of the plate or pan.

In thc presentinvention, illustrated in the drawing,A is'the handle; B, a spur or clamp driven into the Wooden handle A, and riveted` to the blade G' atei, and hooking over the iushown.

E not extending too far forward, the lateral support will be afforded to various sizes ot'` plates, as is desirable. p

I claim as a new article of manufacture- The herein-described plate-lifter consisting of a round pointed blade, having the corrugations O and the luneshaped border E, to which i is attached the handle A B.

MARY G. BARBDUR.

l Witnesses:

M. E. D. GOPELANE, AW. M. H. GorELAND.

PATENT OFFICE.

It furnishes bottom `and lateral,` i support for a plate, and because of the border 

